Frankfort (Chicago, Hanover Park, Worth: section 8, foreclosure, house)

[kindrakindra]

My friend is seriously considering moving her family from Chicago to Frankfort. She will be closer to her inlaws in the south burbs and a job in Indiana. My friend works downtown though. Any input would be appreciated.

[Opkl]

Input for what? What are you trying to ask?

[At1WithNature]

Opkl, I think she's excited!

What do you want to know? it's a decent town but not as nice as it was 20 years ago before all the cook county and chicago types started flooding the town and its' neighbors (like mokena and new lenox) and making traffic a nightmare thanks to the small roads not built to be the anchor to the Nation's 9th fastest Growing County (WILL). the roads are in poor shape as well due to increased traffic. great schools, excellent police force, just a grade A town. however, due to the population explosion expect heavy traffic congestion and poor conditioned roads.

[meatpuff]

Maybe your friend should consider living somewhere cheaper so she doesn't have to work downtown AND in Indiana

[bellamom]

We lived in Frankfort for almost 12 YEARS. After fighting with the schools (middle school and high school) about the oversized class rooms, drug use and selling of drugs inside and outside on school grounds. We decided to sell our house and move to Indiana. While Frankfort is a beautiful town... it is becoming over crowded (as it was two years ago), the housing market was a bit overpriced and the TAXES were out of Control. I Can tell you first hand that there are "some" great teachers but there are far more worse teachers then good. The classroom size was too large 12 years ago... and they needed far more then 4 new schools between, frankfort, fr square, matteson, newlenox, homer, and manhattan. The school board has favorites, the park district activities... i.e. football, baseball, basketball as well as everything else is ran by the favorites and their children always go first all while the kids are snortin at pharma parties and smokin pot on their parents dime. Open your eyes people and be honest. This town has more drugs in it then Chicago's Project homes.
The water in the town sucks... and the town is in serious trouble now with all the foreclosure and bankrupt builders. If I were you, I would rethink your position on frankfort and go to a town that has been stable for 20 or more years... meaning... stay away from a town that is too big for it's own good.... with a bunch of wanna be or claim to be white collar idiots that could care less about their children snortin herion or aderall in the bathrooms at school. WAKE UP PEOPLE... DRUG TEST YOUR KIDS AND TAKE ACTION... BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE TAKES YOU FOR YOUR WORTH. AND STOP LIVING IN SOME DREAM LAND LIKE FRANKFORT....

[chitown85]

Most burbs now have serious drug problems. It isn't localized to Frankfort, it has to do with several factors:

1. The city has bulldozed the projects
2. The city has revitalized areas and pushed the poorer population out to the burbs
3. Section 8 housing has allowed the former tenants of the projects to move into the burbs
4. Since Section 8 is the burbs, they have made a ton of money selling dope, whereas before, suburban kids had to go into the projects to purchase them

[skyeINIL]

No matter what or where the problem, we can always blame black people.

[chitown85]

I never made any reference to race and I didn't intend to either. A person who lived in the projects could have been of any race or ethnicity.

It is a fact that the poorer areas of Chicago housed the housing projects.
It is a well known that the housing projects were magnets for drug dealers and drug purchasers.
It is a fact that the federal government decided to bulldoze the projects in many major cities and redistribute the funds to the former tenants in the form of Section 8 housing vouchers.
It is increasingly apparent that many of the former tenants have relocated to the suburbs in search of better schools and a better quality of life.

That being said, it is also well known that a small percentage of the section 8 tenants in the burbs have brought some of the problems of the projects to the burbs, including drug problems.

In my post above, there was no mention of race or ethnicity. The problem affects all the burbs, North Shore, NW, west, SW, and south burbs. It affects people of all races and ethnicities.

[skyeINIL]

Every problem in the Midwest has been blamed on displaced Section 8 and former public housing tenants. Never mind that drug problems have existed in Frankfort and other Chicago suburbs for years. Black people...sorry, Section 8 tenants are not the only drug dealers.

I have no doubt that some of these people bring trouble to places where there was none before. However, you have nothing to show that a drug problem or any other problem in Frankfort is due to Section 8.

[chitown85]

Of course section 8 tenants are not the only drug dealers. Look to Hanover Park to see gang violence caused by drugs in the past several months. Hanover Park had problems sure, but not of the magnitude that they do now.

Again, there are plenty of drug dealers and drug users from all races and ethnicites. I don't reduce my thoughts to such low levels to involve race or ethnicity, but there are obviously those who do.